Manila folder labelled 'Lacaze'

Containers:

Box 2 (MS Acc22.020)

Component identifier:

File 21

Content Summary:

Contains correspondence and biographical information on Edouard Emile Charles Lacaze (1861–1952), a Mauritian-born sugar chemist and (for a time) Queensland cane farmer. In 1883, he was offered a position as a sugar chemist at 'Gairloch', on the Herbert River in North Queensland, by the firm of Fanning and Nankivell. 'Gairloch' was later sold to A. A. Neame and, in 1896, to C.S.R. Lacaze then resigned his position and acquired a 700-acre cane farm supplying the Macknade Mill. The file mainly contains research correspondence, during the second-half of 2001, with Lacaze's descendant Mr Michael Murphy (Northwood, NSW), the wife of another descendant, Mrs Val Lacaze (Toowoomba, Queensland), the French cultural attaché Alain Monteil, and archives in France. It also contains a copy of Lacaze's death registration, a newspaper report of his death, Duyker's entry for Lacaze in the Dictionnaire de Biographie mauricienne (no. 44, janvier 1989, p. 1352) and his revised (ultimately unpublished) entry for the Australian Dictionary of Biography

Immediate source of acquisition:

This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.

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History

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